wget and fopen similarities

perrohunter

Hello everyone

I have a program in VS and I'd like to translate it to PHP , this program is mainly based on wget command , so my problem and question comes after it.

How do i use fopen in a similar way i use wget, because i have looked alot for fopen examples but havnt understanded any

What im trying to do is download a URL and parse it, I already did this on VS, but on PHP i need to start from getting the file , this i understand can be done using fopen , but after i use fopen on a url i.e: http://localhost/schedule.html . Where does it go ? what to do next ? is the file stored in the same folder as my php script ??

thanks 😃 😃 😃

MarkR

Unfortunately, you haven't told us what VS is, and there are a dozen common usages, none of which appear appropriate for this case.

Reading remote files over HTTP with fopen is extremely easy - you can copy large files down by opening two files, one reading and one writing, then using stream_copy_to_stream.

Please explain further what you want to do.

Mark

perrohunter

Im sorry , VS stands for Visual Basic =P

can u gimme a quick example on how to use steam_copy_to_steam ?

thanks for your answer

bradgrafelman

Note that you need PHP5 to use [man]stream_copy_to_stream/man. If you have PHP5, and you're looking to write the contents to a file, visit the man page for a simple example.

If you're looking to just retrieve the contents of a file and store it into a variable, you could use something like [man]file_get_contents/man.

perrohunter

Thanks for all your answers, but what im trying to do is to read the data from a HTML, and put the data into an array or an object

For example , I got alot of <table></table>'s so I'd like to read all the data whithin and copy it into an array or something

Just like XML , but for HTML , since I dont understand too much XML parsers Im trying to make my own for this HTML =P ! !

Greetings

bradgrafelman

So yeah, you'll want to use [man]file_get_contents/man, learn some REGEXP syntax, and use something like [man]preg_match_all/man.

perrohunter

Looks like what I was looking for, THANKS ! ! 😃 😃 😃